Unky Beard and Aunt Tracer

Uncy Beard and Aunt Tracer are some of my favorites! This a beautiful picture of them. At Christmas they kept me up all night. Aunty Tracer gave me life advice while Beard played "I'm Leaving on Jetplane" almost unbearably on a guitar to my left. They are really crazy and like shooting machine guns all throughout Asia. Maybe you should go look at their blogs. www.trashisbeautifultoo.blogspot.com




Ajjaaammaaaa!!!!



M16S AND AKS BITCH - this was their christmas card?

Thrashin

Ok, this is the SwampCat 2007 movie nomination for best movie of all time. And the winner is obviously THRASHIN!!!! This movie has been rocking since 1986 and still totally rules. When I was seven my dad bought me and my brother this movie on Beta. Do you even know what Beta is?? (It's like mini VHS tapes.) Me and my brother watched this movie everyday, and soon after, bought skateboards, and cut up black electrical tape into post-punk sayings like "SKATE THE POOL" or "LOCALS ONLY." The plot of Thashin is awesome! Cory Webster, the hero, goes to LA to enter a bunch of skate competitions and hook up with his Valley boy buddies . . . but, there is a bad guy gang of skaters called the DAGGERS!!!!! Who are friggin bad-ass. And of course Cory Webster falls in love with the main Dagger's sister. Which pisses everybody off. So, it all ends in this narly downhill battle. And Rodney Mullen does stunt skating in it, and the Red Hot Chilly Peppers are there too. This movie is rad and I give it the SwampCat Movie Award of all Time.

2007 in Japan

We spontaniously decided to go to Osaka on friday, stayed up all night planning it, and then left that moring at 5am. Without any sleep we were eating Japanese pizzas downtown Osaka the next day. We spent the night wandering around Namba, and then retired to our business hotel in shin-imamia, which is also refered to as mafia town. The next day I called up Satomi and she picked us up to show us around town. We checked out the Osaka castle, America-town, Namba, and later went for an amazing spread of sashimi and sa-ki. New Years Eve was spent in a reggae bar drinking Jack Daniels, and then meeting up with people in Triangle Square. The next day we went to Kyoto and checked out temples, and a food festival where I had the best fried chicken of my life.


Osaka Castle


Street near Namba


The Golden Temple


A small shrine we found on a mountain side in Kyoto


And of course, Japanese Hip-Hop